Basic Training (1985)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 1, 1985Release Date
Plot.
Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians
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Cast & Crew.
Ann Dusenberry
Melinda
Rhonda Shear
Debbie
Angela Aames
Cheryl
Walter Gotell
Nabokov
Will Nye
Lt. Cranston
Andrew Sugerman
Director
Marty Brill
General Strombs
Bernard M. Kahn
Writer
Bernie Kahn
Writer
William A. Forester
General Kane
Christopher Pennock
Major Magnum
Gilbert Adler
Producer
Otto Salamon
Producer
Mark Withers
Captain Drysdale
Michael Cruz
Composer
Gerard Prendergast
Bill Slater
Marty Cohen
Michael
Stephen W. Gray
Cinematographer
Orly Oh
Tanya
Linda Hoy
Miss Perkins
Kenny Ellis
Sidney
Gerald Berns
Steve
Lynn Griffis
Reporter #1
John Ochoa
Reporter #2
Michael Greene
Dimitri
Mark Lowenthal
Vladimir
Sam Scarber
SWAT Leader
Ari Barak
Abdul
Sammy Warren
Shoeshine Man
Donald Fullilove
Typewriter Man
Cynthia Frost
Cleaning Woman
Barbara Peckinpaugh
Salesgirl #1
Media.
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Basic Training (a.k.a. Up the Military) is a 1985 sex comedy film by Andrew Sugerman. It is often considered to be one of the worst films of 1985. While set in Washington D.C., most of the production was filmed in Los Angeles, including Bob Hope Patriotic Hall. During production the working title was "Up the Pentagon."